Legal cases

R., transgender man, appealed to the Legal Defense Project in April, last year.

He had diagnosis F64.0, proven by Novosibirsk Psychiatric Commission, certificate of hormonal sex reassignment, issued by endocrinologist, and the Civil Registry Office opinion to refuse to amend the record of birth certificate due to the fact of absence of established form of gender reassignment.

Court preference was made up by the Project lawyer Daniel Haimovich.

In the Court of the First Instance the applicant was represented by Lidia Sayutina, lawyeress from Novosibirsk.